.TH \%lookbib 1 "5 December 2024" "groff 1.23.0"
.SH Name
\%lookbib \- search bibliographic databases
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.SH Synopsis
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.SY \%lookbib
.RB [ \-i\~\c
.IR string ]
.RB [ \-t\~\c
.IR n ]
.I file
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.YS
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.SY \%lookbib
.B \-\-help
.YS
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.SY \%lookbib
.B \-v
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.SY \%lookbib
.B \-\-version
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.SH Description
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.I \%lookbib
writes a prompt to the standard error stream
(unless the standard input stream is not
a terminal),
reads from the standard input a line containing a set of keywords,
searches each bibliographic database
.I file
for references containing those keywords,
writes any references found to the standard output stream,
and repeats this process until the end of input.
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For each database
.I file
to be searched,
if an index
.RI file \%.i
created by
.MR \%indxbib 1
exists,
then it will be searched instead;
each index can cover multiple databases.
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.SH Options
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.B \-\-help
displays a usage message,
while
.B \-v
and
.B \-\-version
show version information;
all exit afterward.
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.TP
.BI \-i\~ string
When searching files for which no index exists,
ignore the contents of fields whose names are in
.IR string .
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.TP
.BI \-t\~ n
Require only the first
.I n
characters of keys to be given.
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The default
is\~6.
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.SH Files
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.TP
.RI file \%.i
Index files.
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.SH "See also"
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\[lq]Some Applications of Inverted Indexes on the Unix System\[rq],
by M.\& E.\& Lesk,
1978,
AT&T Bell Laboratories Computing Science Technical Report No.\& 69.
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